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Baedeker calls Paddington "uninteresting," but a lot of people sniping at the Church of England have recently made London's northwest district the most embarrassingly lively parish in Britain. For much of the borough is a red-light district, much of its land is Church-owned...
Safe in London after flights to Italy, to North Africa, to Britain, New York's Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman (see p. 41) left Paddington Station in a limousine which promptly struck a parked car, crumpled a fender, smashed a wheel, blew a tire. The Archbishop was shaken but uninjured, planned to fly back to Africa next week...
Back in London this week, Churchill looked fit and tanned. Hundreds of Britons at Paddington Station cheered him, looked longingly at the crates of fresh fruit he brought back...
...name of H. G. Wells, who died yesterday afternoon of heart failure in the Paddington infirmary at the age of 97, will have few associations for the younger generation. ... He was indeed one of the most prolific of the 'literary hacks' of that time. . . . The most interesting thing about Wells was his refusal to accept the social inferiority to which he seemed to have been born. ... He was a liberal democrat in the sense that he claimed an unlimited right to think, criticize, discuss and suggest, and he was a socialist in his antagonism to personal, racial...
...railroad system would be moved out to a ring line encircling the city. Within the ring all railroad lines would be electrified and underground. Liverpool Street, Waterloo and London Bridge stations would be moved to the ring. Euston, King's Cross, St. Pancras stations would be amalgamated. Victoria, Paddington, Marylebone would remain where they...